I am surfing the web from the comfort of my couch, shamelessly using somebody else’s wireless connection because my own isn’t working. Guess I’ll have to figure that out…
On Sunday I picked up a wireless router and managed to get it set up through my desktop, you know, in preparation for my new laptop, dum dum dummmmm. I’m almost amazed I managed to get it set up at all after the experience I had in the store.
For the first time I can remember, I felt completely baffled by technology. I stood in the aisle staring at row after row of wireless routers, without any true idea of what I needed. “Wireless!” “Wireless with SpeedBooster!” “Wireless with SRX!” Linksys. Netgear. A bunch of other brands.
So: what to get? I’m a fairly computer saavy person, I should know this, right?
I looked around for a 13-year-old. Someone who would understand all the wireless mumbo-jumbo. Instead, all I found the sales guy, who tried to sell me the most expensive router of the section I was perusing. Sigh.
I settled on the middle ground and left feeling like technology has truly started to pass me by. But…but…but…I was the girl who Leila accosted freshman year because I was the first one on the hall that had her email set up!
Wireless. I’m on the internet and there are no wires. Crazy.
geez…must be getting old sis 🙂 wireless is fun because i can sit on my sofa downstairs and surf. i just plugged my router in and it worked though. too bad my laptop battery doesn’t work anymore
I used to have to choose between my two vices, internet and cable television. With wireless I am comfortably ensconced on my sofa facing the TV. Heaven! I love wireless.
Totally! I don’t know how I managed when I had to get off my butt and go upstairs to get on my computer. Now I can surf anywhere! On the sofa – check. In bed – check. In the bathroom – uh, maybe we shouldn’t go there…